Savannah Guthrie offers $1 million for tips leading to her mother’s return.
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Family Offers $1 Million Reward for Tips Leading to Nancy Guthrie
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The NBC “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie said her family would pay up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy Guthrie, who was abducted from her home near Tucson, Ariz.CreditCredit…NBC/Today, via Reuters
The television news anchor Savannah Guthrie said on Tuesday that her family is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home more than three weeks ago.
Ms. Guthrie, a “Today” show host, made the new offer in a four-minute video posted on Instagram in which she acknowledged that her 84-year-old mother may already be dead, but said the family was holding out hope for a miracle. If Nancy Guthrie has died, she said, the family still needs to know where she is.
The family is also donating $500,000 to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit group that works to find missing children and stop children from being sexually exploited.
The reward of $1 million is in addition to a current F.B.I. reward of $100,000, and both would be paid to anyone offering information that leads to locating Ms. Guthrie. There is also a $100,000 reward being offered by a Tucson-based crime hotline.
“If you’ve been waiting and you haven’t been sure, let this be your sign to please come forward,” Ms. Guthrie said. “Tell what you know, and help us bring our beloved mom home, so that we can either celebrate a glorious, miraculous homecoming, or celebrate the beautiful, brave and courageous and noble life that she has lived.”
The family’s reward will be paid “only for recovery of Nancy Guthrie,” consistent with the F.B.I.’s own criteria, Savannah Guthrie said in the caption of her Instagram post. The F.B.I. has said its reward is for information “leading to the location” of Ms. Guthrie or the conviction of anyone involved in her abduction.
Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her home just north of Tucson early in the morning on Feb. 1 — “taken in the dark of night from her bed,” Savannah Guthrie said in her newly posted video.
The F.B.I. and local sheriff’s department have received tens of thousands of tips, but have offered few clues about who might have taken her. The key evidence so far has been 44 seconds of footage from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera that showed a masked, armed man approaching her door shortly before her abduction.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department publicly ruled out Ms. Guthrie’s family — including Nancy Guthrie’s children and their spouses — as suspects last week. Hundreds of investigators from the department and the F.B.I. are assigned to the case, the authorities have said.
Savannah Guthrie’s video on Tuesday was the first time in more than a week that she had spoken publicly. She and her siblings had released several other videos early in the investigation, offering to negotiate a ransom payment to any abductor.
Since then, however, there has been little discussion from the authorities or the family about any purported ransom demands. Over the past two weeks, the focus of investigators and the family appears to have turned to trying to generate tips.
In her video on Tuesday, Ms. Guthrie said she also hoped that people would give their attention to other cases of missing people who are not tied to celebrities like her.
“We are hoping that the attention that has been given to our mom and our family will extend to all the families like ours, who are in need,” she said.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which is headquartered in Virginia, said on social media that it was grateful to the Guthrie family “for turning their personal heartbreak into a commitment to helping others.”
Feb. 24, 2026
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs
Savannah Guthrie, the “Today” show host, announced in a video this morning that her family is offering up to $1 million for information that leads to finding her mother, Nancy, who was abducted from her home near Tucson on Feb. 1.
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Background on the Case
Feb. 3, 2026
Claire Moses
Here are the details on the disappearance and investigation.
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Law enforcement officers outside the home of Nancy Guthrie near Tucson, Ariz., on Feb. 2.Credit…Sejal Govindarao/Associated Press
The disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, 84, the mother of the “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, has gripped the nation, with unverified reports of ransom notes, chilling doorbell camera footage and the fame of Ms. Guthrie’s daughter capturing intense interest.
As the days have passed since her last known sighting, developments have intermittently surfaced, but none of them have led to an arrest.
Here’s what we know.
The sheriff clears all of the Guthrie family members.
Chris Nanos, the Pima County sheriff, has cleared all members of the Guthrie family, including all siblings and spouses, as possible suspects.
It was the first time that Sheriff Nanos had ruled anyone out in the course of the investigation.
“The family has been nothing but cooperative and gracious and are victims in this case,” he said in a statement. “To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel. The Guthrie family are victims, plain and simple.”
Police seek to match DNA found in gloves.
The F.B.I. has said that gloves found about two miles from Ms. Guthrie’s home had an unknown man’s DNA on them, and that it would put the DNA profile into a database in an effort to identify the person.
The F.B.I. said that the gloves appeared to match those worn by the man who was captured on Ms. Guthrie’s doorbell camera on the night she was abducted.
The F.B.I. added that most of the other gloves recovered during its searches were those of investigators who had discarded them while conducting sweeps near the home.
A sheriff’s department spokeswoman previously said that investigators found DNA on Nancy Guthrie’s property that was neither hers nor that of anyone in “close contact with her.” The police did not say where the DNA was found.
A flurry of activity happened two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home.
Earlier this month, law enforcement officials swarmed an upscale subdivision two miles from Nancy Guthrie’s home in the Catalina Foothills area of Tucson, searching a house as well as a Range Rover parked at a nearby Culver’s.
Where investigators have searched
Since Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance on Feb. 1, investigators have returned to her house multiple times and canvassed several homes in and around her neighborhood.
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A glove that the F.B.I. said looked similar to those worn by a suspect in surveillance footage was found within two miles of Ms. Guthrie’s house.
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The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said that a federal court-ordered search warrant was executed at the home. A traffic stop was also conducted, and a person was questioned but there were no arrests.
The police also investigated a house on the edge of the Catalina Foothills neighborhood, a short drive from Nancy Guthrie’s home and the home of her older daughter and son-in-law, the sheriff’s department said.
The authorities briefly detained a man but released him after questioning.
